Don't Trust Your Users
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Some of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications are caused by applications not properly inspecting the data that users send in. PHP has an entire suite of tools to help inspected, filter, and sanitize data that comes from the user and other outside parties. Using built-in methods and extra tools you can protect your app from harmful data and users.
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Don't Trust Your Users
- 1. Don't Trust Your Users Chris Tankersley ZendCon 2014
- 2. 2 Who Am I? ● A PHP Developer for 10 Years ● Lots of projects no one uses, and a few some do ● https://github.com/dragonmantank
- 3. 3 Everyone Loves a Story http://northweststate.edu/about-nscc/
- 4. 4 Programming is Just Acronyms ● DRY – Don't Repeat Yourself ● KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid ● IPO – Input, Process, Output
- 5. 5 GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out
- 6. 6 Users Are a Nice Big Family
- 7. 7 Some People Want To Watch The World Burn
- 8. 8 We Love Contact Forms
- 9. 9 Client Side Validation
- 10. 10 HTML5 Validation <input type="email" required> <input type="text" pattern="d{5}([-]d{4})?)">
- 11. 11 Browsers Suck http://caniuse.com/#search=required
- 12. 12 Server Side is Necessary http://cucher.iblogger.org/images/as400_family.jpg
- 13. 13 Filtering vs Validation
- 14. 14 Removes Unwanted 'Stuff'
- 15. 15 Filtering changes things https://www.flickr.com/photos/httpwwwflickrcompeoplenadar/3349883/sizes/l
- 16. 16 Filtering changes things
- 17. 17 Validation Judges Things
- 18. 18 Most Libraries Do Both
- 19. 19 PHP's Filter Module
- 20. 20 Some Background ● Enabled by default since 5.2.0 ● Provides both Validation and Filtering ● Very easy to use to work with data ● Exposed via the 7 basic functions
- 21. 21 Validation is Easy and Fun! <?php var_dump(filter_var('755', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)); var_dump(filter_var('755.0', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)); int(755) bool(false)
- 22. Basic Validation Out of the Box 22
- 23. 23 We can clean up data as well filter_var('ID 655', FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT); string(3) '655'
- 24. 24 What can we clean up?
- 25. 25 What can we clean up?
- 26. 26 Manual Filters function myFilter($string) { return substr($string, 5); } $output = filter_var('This is my test string', FILTER_CALLBACK, array( 'options' => 'myFilter', ))); string(12) 'is my string'
- 27. 27 Does big jobs as well
- 28. 28 Aura.Filter
- 29. 29 Easy To Use
- 30. 30 Rule Types ● Soft Rules – Doesn’t Stop Validation Chain ● Hard Rules – Stop Validation Chain For This Element ● Stop Rules – Stop All Validation
- 31. 31 Validation and Filtering ● RuleCollection::IS – Must match the rule ● RuleCollection::IS_NOT – Must not match ● RuleCollection::IS_BLANK_OR – Must be blank or match ● RuleCollection::FIX – Sanitize The Data ● RuleCollection::FIX_IS_BLANK_OR – Fix if not blank
- 32. 32 Bundled Rules ● Alnum ● Alpha ● Between ● Blank ● Bool ● Credit Card ● DateTime ● Email ● Equal To Field ● Equal To Value ● Float ● In Array Keys ● In Array Values ● Int ● ipv4 ● Locale ● Max ● Min ● Regex ● Strict Equals ● String(length, min,max) ● Trim ● Upload ● Url
- 33. 33 Custom Rules ● Extend AuraFilterAbstractRule ● Implement validate() and sanitize() ● Add to the Rule Locator
- 34. 34 Check it out https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Filter
- 35. 35 Use Your Framework's
- 36. 36 Zend Framework 2
- 37. 37 ZendValidator
- 38. 38 ZendValidator
- 39. 39 ZendValidator
- 42. Symfony2 Validator Read the docs - http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/validation.html 42
- 44. 44 Use with Forms
- 45. 45 Always Look First
- 46. 46 One Last Thing
- 47. 47 Validation is Hard
- 48. 48 Questions?
- 49. 49 Thanks! ● https://joind.in/talk/view/12063 ●@dragonmantank ● chris@ctankersley.com